Applications of optical microcombs

Y Sun, J Wu, M Tan, X Xu, Y Li, R Morandotti… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based
on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological …

Photonic RF and microwave filters based on 49 GHz and 200 GHz Kerr microcombs

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, R Morandotti, A Mitchell… - Optics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Integrated Kerr microcombs are emerging as a powerful tool as sources of multiple
wavelength channels for photonic RF and microwave signal processing mainly in the …

Photonic RF arbitrary waveform generator based on a soliton crystal micro-comb source

M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, B Corcoran, J Wu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report a photonic-based radio frequency (RF) arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) using
a soliton crystal micro-comb source with a free spectral range (FSR) of 48.9 GHz. The comb …

Orthogonally polarized RF optical single sideband generation with integrated ring resonators

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent work on narrowband orthogonally polarized optical RF single sideband
generators as well as dual-channel equalization, both based on high-Q integrated ring …

Photonic perceptron based on a Kerr Microcomb for high‐speed, scalable, optical neural networks

X Xu, M Tan, B Corcoran, J Wu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Optical artificial neural networks (ONNs)—analog computing hardware tailored for machine
learning—have significant potential for achieving ultra‐high computing speed and energy …

[PDF][PDF] RF and microwave photonic high bandwidth signal processing based on Kerr micro-comb sources

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, R Morandotti, A Mitchell… - … in Physics X, 2020 - researchgate.net
Integrated Kerr micro-combs are a powerful source of multiple wavelength channels for
photonic radio frequency (RF) and microwave signal processing, particularly for transversal …

Broadband photonic RF channelizer with 92 channels based on a soliton crystal microcomb

X Xu, M Tan, J Wu, A Boes, TG Nguyen… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report a broadband radio frequency (RF) channelizer with up to 92 channels using a
coherent microcomb source. A soliton crystal microcomb, generated by a 49 GHz micro-ring …

Integral order photonic RF signal processors based on a soliton crystal micro-comb source

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, B Corcoran, A Boes… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Soliton crystal micro-combs are powerful tools as sources of multiple wavelength channels
for radio frequency (RF) signal processing. They offer a compact device footprint, a large …

Battery-operated integrated frequency comb generator

B Stern, X Ji, Y Okawachi, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs are broadband sources that offer mutually coherent, equidistant
spectral lines with unprecedented precision in frequency and timing for an array of …

Photonic radio frequency channelizers based on Kerr optical micro-combs

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent work on broadband RF channelizers based on integrated optical
frequency Kerr micro-combs combined with passive micro-ring resonator filters, with …